Saba Mahmood: Moral Injury and Secular Law: The Danish Cartoon Controversy and the Question of Muslim Minority in Europe
Saba Mahmood is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California Berkeley and the author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject. In her lecture she challenges the consensus that the Danish cartoon controversy is best understood as a clash between the values of free speech and blasphemy. Her analysis has implications for how Muslim and non-Muslim Europeans want to think about their collective future in European societies.